Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1887-07-19
provement il it could be furnished
Ice Plentiful.


tons Of ice on hand, 6l7 tons in a
schooner in the dock, and 1900 tons
IN route from the Kennebec river,
Maine. Mrs. Jane King has about
LEGO tons ON hand and 1,500 tons
coming from the Kennebec. The
Transparent-Ice Company is being sup
Piled temporarily by Mrs. King, but a
new engine has been put in their
works which will soon be making
twenty tons per day.
stopped WORK from the Heat.
The intensity Of the heat has been
80 great for several days that the hands
employed by the Old Dominion Iron
and Nail-Works on Belle Isle have snf-
fered very much and been able to ac-
complish but small tasks. Such being
the case President Blankenship order
cd that the fires be not kindled yester-
day and operations are temporarily
suspended. Just as soon as the heat
moderates sufficiently operations with
a full summer force will begin.
The company has large orders ahead,
and will work closer this summer than
usual, the weather and other circum-
stances considered.
Working at rolIing-mills and fur
nacos with the thermometer standing
at l0el in the shade isno pleasant thing
TO DO -~-.--
OVERCOME BY HEAT.
About 3 o'clock yesterday afternoon
the city ambulance was called TO 303j
Lester street, Rockets, TO Lizzie Ter
rell, who was overcome by heat. She
was left at home.
A half hour later Mr.. J. Blunt, while
at work at Watson's tobacco-factory,
was stricken with shnstroke. He was
found in an unconscious condition, and
was carried to his home, 10l1 west
Marshall street.
Mr.. John p. Goss, first auditing CLERK
at the Capitol, was overcome by the
heat on q Chesapeake and Ohio train
Saturday afternoon while on his way
to Albemarle county. He was uncon-
scious until the junction was reached.
DR.. Armistead Wexford rendered ne
cessary attention.
CTTY-HALL HANDS STOP WORK.
Only half the force (about 100 men
went to work on the City Hall yester-
day morning, and as the day advanced
several hands complained of feeling
badly and quit work. BY noon the
heat became so unbearable that all
work was stopped, and will not be re-
sumed until the weather cools.
THE MEN CAN'T STAND IT.
Mr.. r. William Harris, contractor fol
the Union Passenger-Railway Compa
nv, saws if the heated term continues
he will not work his force hereafter
later than noon, as the men can't stand
it. Numbers were compelled to stol
work yesterday ully one half.
His force laid mile and quarter OF
track last week.
Sudden Deaths.
Coroner Taylor was kept busy Sun
day. The first case was Otto Meistsr,
aged fifty.eight years, bookbindcr,
WHO was overcome by heat at his home,
504 east Baker street, about 1o'clock,
and went to bed. At o'clock he was
a corpse. Death was probably from
congestion of the lungs.
Coroner Taylor was next called to
I'll Louisiana street, Rockets, to view
the body of Joseph Lewis, white
man, thirty.three years of age, a brick
maker by occupation, who was heard
to complain Saturday of pain in his
head. About / o'clock he was fOund
lying on the front steps of bis house
in an unconscious condition. lie con
tinued to sink until 3 o'clock, at which
hour he died. Death was probably
from congestion of the brain.
DIR. Taylor was next called to los
north Seventh street, where he found
the dead body of Sarah Brandcr, a
colored woman, aged forty years. The
deceased was a cook and reached home
Sunday afternoon about o'clock. She
seemed to be in her usual health. Al
fifteen minutes past o'clock she was
discovered lying i'll her bed dead.
Death was probably from heat.
A colcred woman named Louise,
aged seventy years, employed as cook
at 515 north First street, was overcome
by the heat about O'Clock Sunday
afternoon. The ambulance was called,
and the physician in charge started to
the almshouse with her, but she died
before reaching there. The Coroner
viewed the body. Probable cause OF
death, old age and heat.
Samuel Gregory, aged thirty ve
years, a cook at SO east Cary street,
was taken sick about 10 o'clock. He
became deliIious and continued to
grow worse. The ambulance was called
about half-past o'clock. and he was
being taken to the city hospital when he
died on the way. Probable cause OF
death, congestion of the brain from
heat.
Ali the above deaths occurred on
Sunday, and the bodies of deceased
we're received by the Coroner. Yester'
day he had no cases.
Nearly all the deceased were dis
eased persons.
Peter Beverly (colored), night
waiter at George Bannister's restaurant,
Governor street, went on duty Sunday
afternoon at $50 O'Clock apparently in
good health. About 1:i0 o'clock he
was taken sick. DIR. Brock was sum
moned, and after treatment the sufferer
was removed to his residence, No. 72l
north Second street, and his regular
physician was called in. He consulted
with DR.. Brock and continued his treat
ment. Beverly diedyesterday morning
at 6:30 o'clock. His death was induced
by the extreme heat.
J. w. Anderson, one of the street
sweeping force, living on Laurel neal
Albemarle street, was overcome by the
heat Saturday. Yesterday, feeling bet
ter be walked out, but the trouble re-
turned, and he hurried home and died
about noon. Anderson was married,
and leaves a wife and four children.
Other sudden deaths reported last
night were Mrs. Torple, keeper of a
grocery on Franklin street, OF heart
disease Ad. Tucker, an ex-policeman
and an employee of the Chesapeake
and Ohio Railway Company's shops, OF
heat and the wife of MIR. II. Schlueter,
of apoplexy resulting from heat.
About half-past | o'clock John Gen
try, a huckster, vino had been drink
ing, while getting over fence in the
lower part of the city caught his pants
on nail and was hung there for some
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